Abstract: A holder for receiving the handle and securing the yarn of a yacht mop or the like is provided. The holder comprises a sleeve to receive in one end the handle of the mop. A base is also provided having a concave interior surface against which the yarn of the mop is to be held. The base is centrally secured to the other end of the sleeve. A pair of spaced slots provided in the base extends through the base and is located in the portion thereof circumscribed by the sleeve. The holder further comprises a flexible bundling strap having an elongated body portion. One end of the body portion is a tail end and the other end is a clinching eyelet. The clinching eyelet allows the tail end of the strap to pass through it and securely hold the strap against unpurposeful disengagement. The strap is fitted in the slots so that its tail end and clinching eyelet are positioned on the concave side of the base.

Abstract: A system whereby use is made of a double bottom tank, in fluid communication with a bag made of reinforced elastomeric material to provide segregated ballast space in the cargo space of a ship. The double bottom space and bag are filled with ballast water when the cargo space is empty, thereby making use of the cargo space in which the bag is located to carry ballast water in space previously occupied by cargo, without having any cross-contamination of the ballast water by the cargo residues or gases. The outward and upward movement of the bag is restricted by a rigid guide cage. An open, or partially open, topped rigid container is placed around the guide cage to restrict the "free surface effect" of the ballast water in the unlikely event of failure of the ballast bag. A header tank is provided to keep a positive pressure head on the water in the bag when in the ballast condition. A semi-flexible float assists in guiding the bag during ballasting and de-ballasting operations.

Abstract: A latch and lock guard for doors which comprises a pair of similar elongated bars of sufficient width and thickness for purposes of rigidity. Each bar has a flat base and a series of uniform, regularly spaced teeth extending integrally from the bar sideways along one edge. The width of the spaces between the teeth is slightly greater than the width of the teeth. Means are provided to secure solidly one bar to the external side of a door over the lock area, with its teeth pointing towards the adjacent door edge, and to secure solidly the other bar to the door jamb with its teeth pointing towards the door edge, the teeth of one bar fitting within the slots between the teeth of the other, and vice versa, in interlocking fashion when the door is in closed position.

Abstract: A jig for assembling table tops such as picnic table tops, which have a plurality of similar elongated rectangular top members secured together in aligned fashion on transverse bottom members. The jig comprises a frame to which are secured transverse member holders having bottom and side surfaces to receive and secure in parallel position at predetermined spaced locations the transverse members in such a way that the upper surfaces of the transverse members in position in the transverse member holders lie in the same plane. The jig also comprises alignment means secured to the frame to align one end of the top members when in assembly position on the transverse members in the transverse member holders. An alignment means is rigidly secured to the frame at a position which will properly orient a top member with respect to the transverse member by abutment of one of the top member's side surfaces against this alignment means.

Abstract: A personnel in and out indicator device which is programmable with information regarding the in or out status and time of arrival or departure of employees at a location. The device consists of a frame on which are mounted a series of manually operable personnel indicating switches. Each of such switches represents a particular person or persons in respect of which information is to be recorded or displayed. A further series of manually operable switches is exposed on the frame, each of these switches representing a particular time. A memory means is electrically associated with the personnel indicating and time indicating switches to receive and store information received from these switches.

Abstract: A device for measuring the quantity of raw pasta required to produce the desired amount of cooked pasta. In the domestic market most packaged spaghetti is ten inches in length and a simple measurer for calculating the required amount of this raw product selected for cooking is a non-stretchable, flexible measuring line that can be looped around a bundle of spaghetti to determine its circumference. The line is calibrated and can show the number of serving portions of cooked spaghetti that the encircled bundle will produce. To facilitate its use in the family kitchen the line is provided with a ring on one end thereof that can be slipped over the thumb of the user and holding a bundle of spaghetti, of approximately correct size, in her hand the line is wrapped around the spaghetti to measure its circumference and determine if more or less spaghetti is needed.

Abstract: A pivoting jaw retaining means for a yarn-type wet mop head, the main parts of which may be integrally moulded from appropriate plastic material and which has few moving parts. The retaining means has an elongated body provided with opposite spaced first and second terminal extensions downwardly extending from the ends of the body. One end of the jaw is pivotably secured to the lower free end of the first extension. The other end of the jaw and the inside surface of the lower end of the second extension are provided with releasably co-operating engagement means. When in engaged position the jaw and the body are in spaced parallel orientation. The second terminal extension also extends upwardly from the corresponding end of the body. The second terminal is pivotably associated between its ends with the body for outward movement of the lower free end of the second terminal extension away from the jaw. The retaining means is further provided with a semi-rigid release bar.

Abstract: An attachment for a direct drive gasoline or electric powered chain saw for delimbing, thinning, pruning and brushing. The attachment comprises a rigid bar of round cross-section which is secured to the blade of a chain saw at a point spaced a short distance towards the handle from the tip of the blade. When so secured, the bar has a straight portion traversing the flat of the blade at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the blade, extending forwardly and downwardly with respect thereto and upwardly and rearwardly beyond the upper edge of the blade. The bar lies substantially in a plane parallel to the plane of the blade. A second portion of the bar projects beyond the lower edge of the blade and is bent in a gradual curve through an arc radians so that its end is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blade. The bar is secured to the flat of the blade by appropriate securing means and is preferably spaced from the surface of the blade.